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17/07/2008 11:31 AM - (SA) Judith Mason exhibits on Saturday
Judith Mason is well known all over South Africa and abroad. She was born in Pretoria in 1938 and obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1960. She taught painting at the same University and occasionally at other institutions, e.g. Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. Today she is known as a painter and graphic artist of symbolic and mythological landscapes, figures and portraits. Mason works primarily in oils and pencil, but has also incorporated various graphic media and found objects in her work as well as making a number of artists' books. Judith Mason's work is drawn or painted in reaction to her world: political events, comments that she has read or the experience of particular people or animals which are used in a symbolic context. On exhibition are some of the original pencil drawings for the books Talking Pictures and A Dante Bestiary from the late eighties. · Elzaby Laubscher lives and works in Paarl. She was born in KwaZulu-Natal and studied at the University of Pretoria, The Ruth Prowse College of Art and The Cape Town School of Photography. She started working as an artist in 1987 and has held several solo exhibitions that often dealt with social issues such as crime, violence and child abuse. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. She held her first very successful photographic exhibition titled Nature's Sketchbook at the Abalone Gallery in November/December last year. Judith and Elzaby share their passion for drawing and Elzaby describes this medium as an art form with immediacy and simplicity that captures character and soul. The Abalone Gallery is situated at 2 Harbour Road in The Courtyard. For more information phone 028-313 2935.
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